LEFT FOOT HI-HAT DEVELOPMENT Pt.1 - How & What To Play (BEGINNERS)

Can you please help me learn Josie by Blink 182?

Dude! Am I the only one that wants to know where I can get those shoes?

Horrible lesson

Nice and simple

super exercice !!

Adding any kind of left foot pattern into a groove just sends things off the rails in a hurry. I play double bass pretty well but playing the hihat pedal or just keeping simple time with it always throws me off badly.

I feel like my hands and right foot are fairly independent but my left foot needs a ton of work. Thanks for this.

As a guitar player learning drums, this is how I need it broken down. Thank you! And the high hat adjustment... why have none of my drummer friends clued me in on that one?

Love the snare sound. Is that a Yamaha kit?

I wish there was a PDF and or a simultaneous video of the drum base. I didn't get it from just seeing it. Beginner here...

Great instruction. I will try these. My left foot is basically like a brick on the pedal lol!

Oof. It’s not just reprogramming my hardwired ‘hats on foot are on TWO and FOUR only. And that’s on a good day…’
It’s also about prising my kick away from the safe haven stomping on the ONE for a bedrock reference point when something is challenging

I didn’t realized I sucked until I tried this first time. Lol not good but I’ll get it

So glad I found you dood. Thanks for your vids

I'm a lefty trying to learn as a righty and is tricky to coordinate, but I guess it just takes a little longer to learn it.

Rob, are you doing this with your heel up or heel down?

Is that a one drop groove, used in reggae to have the kick on the back beat with the snare

I’m a returning drummer, having played semi-professionally to an advanced-intermediate level (being honest, I’ve never been professional/session ability). I went back to education had to sell my gear and now have a young family I have recently been in a position to buy a kit and get back to playing after a 12 year hiatus.
I’m now relearning my muscle memory and learning things I should have learnt properly back in the day.
Your tuition videos are great dude, proper grass roots skills that I can see will give a fantastic foundation from which to build.
Keep them coming matey and thank you!
🤘

Your videos are the best. You’ve helped me so much ❤

My left foot brain is connected to either my left or right hand at any given moment, but is not independent. I'm gonna work on it, though

That backbeat bro

thanks so much from a beginner ! I started one year ago, being 64 years old. Crazy, maybe, but never had so much fun before in my life. I live in Paraguay, where it is hard to find professional teachers, who are patient enough with an older lady, smile ... seeing your footwork now, base drum and hi-hat, you left me dumbfounded but eager to get this. I may need more time than the Youngsters, but your explanations are great. Thanks a lot, gracias y saludados ... Gabriele

So I'm not the only one???. I'm going to make an effort to fix my hi hat deficiency

Hi hat,cymbals and bass drum i know how to tyming it, but if i add snare my brain star scamble

Thank you.

Thanks for the tips Mr. Brown! Now i can get my left foot involved instead of it just sitting on the hi hat as it has the last two months. I am doing the drumeo method but that foot has been planted firmly and i am starting to freak out as i know all sorts of crap with my other limbs but the left foot just sits there.

Thanks a lot !

Like dancing with one leg.

As a drummer over 40 years, nobody can't imagine how difficult this is for me. Always used the hi-hat otherwise than on two and four. I'm crazy mad I feel like a big fool, my level is far under a beginner, while my mistakes are like burned in deeply. BUT, I'm starting now and keep on practicing. Thank you Rob, and greetings from the Netherlands. 🤘

This is what I needed when I needed it Rob. Thank you!

Is a bar an 8 count.

I can get 3 limbs on time but 4 limbs I struggle.

I’ve started to count with the left foot over everything that im playing, its improved my timing massively and im getting better at it quite quickly.

One thing that’s difficult though is half open hi hat. I bounce my heel when im playing it closed, and i move it back for an open hi hat, but its really hard working out what to do with a crispy half open hi hat, any advice?

I will be a better drummer !

I picked up drumming during quarantine and learned so much from your video's. You are a great drummer that likes to help a beginner out.

Whenever I try to coordinate between my right foot on the bass drum and my left on the snare, it's not really like I have two brains--it feels like I have no brain at all! :)

Currently chewing on it, my thanks

So Rob is the snare 2 & 4 as well ?

5 years later. But here's a thank you none the less. You're the man , Rob!

Thank you so f'n much

I am working on my independence and this video is helping. I can do it when I count 1 2 3 4 like Rob suggests but once I start counting 1 & 2 & 1 & 2 the hi hat moves from the 2 and 4 to the &. Can someone explain this to me. Or am I just missing something? Thanks!

Very helpful lessons thank you from Egypt 👍

Im very new to drums, ive just picked up some Alesis Nitro e-drums. Do the rules still apply? :) thank you for the info

This is one of the things I've never bothered learning cuz I always played with a slighty cracked hi hat for that heavier sound.

I’m not sure if I’m a beginner, intermediate or somewhere in between? I don’t have any aspirations to be in a band, just played sporadically as a hobby for years. I really enjoy it but I’ve always felt inadequate re the left leg which I rarely use…. Until now! Thanks so much for this exercise! It’s allowed me to get old lefty in on the action and now I’m combining it with a couple of other things. Having some really nice, fluid/magic moments on the drums now that all four limbs are involved! A thousand thanks 🙏

This is a great lesson. Been playing for decades at home but never used the hi hat foot. Its like starting all over again now but i love it. Thanks so much for this Rob...

Thank you, Rob! Great lesson!

Thanks Rob !

How should my left foot be placed on the pedal? I usually keep my foot flat (heel down) and just lift my toe when I want an open hat. But when I want to use my left foot to keep time on the quarter notes, I find my foot playing heel up. Thanks for any advice!